Word: french
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hobby horse) was first applied by this group to one of the female singers in derision, and afterwards to a movement that derided the contemporary arts. Later the centre of the movement was shifted by Tristan Tzara, one of the founders, to Paris where it became united with a French movement of a somewhat similar nature...
Stumping about the conference painfully on his two rubber-tipped canes, the Rt. Hon. Snowden seemed a puny match for his Latin opponents: the delegations of France, Belgium and Italy, marshaled by doughty French Prime Minister Aristide Briand. It was a queer tussle. M. Briand is at least three times as great in girth as the frail Yorkshireman, and nine years his senior in statecraft. The Latins, supported by Japan and with Germany's blocky Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann neutral, were in solid phalanx pressing for adoption of the Young Plan unchanged. They were satisfied with the size...
Round Two, Snowy-bearded, patriarchially irate French Finance Minister Henri Cheron rose to hurl a counter ultimatum: "There can be no thought of making a division of annuities different from that of the Young Plan. Mr. Snowden's proposal is not acceptable...
Shifting the grounds of the debate, the French and Italians launched emotional tirades, recalled that huge cuts had been made in their original claims against Germany, rehearsed their "sacrifices" in accepting the Young Plan...
...prod the insult doubly deep, Mr. Snowden, when he had done, hobbled out past the French delegation with lips pursed, whistling, set off for a motor ride...